BOMgAY

Dec 22, 1996

0h 12m

★ 1.0

Overview

Based on the poetry of R. Raj Rao, Bomgay is a collection of six vignettes that depict the underground and complex nature of the gay identity in urban India. Part Genet, part Bollywood, this film combines acidic verse and insightful imagery to reveal the emerging gay community in the post-liberalized India of the 1990s.

Genres

Documentary

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Cast

Rahul Bose

Kushal Punjabi

Tarun Shahani

R. Raj Rao

Farud Cambata

Freddy Firoze

Eric Rosenbaum

Kunal Kapoor

Rajit Kapoor

Riyad Vinci Wadia

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